Wildfire : a century of failed forest policy, edited by George Wuerthner

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Wildfire : a century of failed forest policy

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Sausalito, Calif., Foundation for Deep Ecology by arrangement with Island Press, ©2006

Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-316) and index

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Introduction ; Myths ; The political decision-making process / George Wuerthner -- Worldview -- Deep valuing of wildlands as ecosystems: learning sustainability from the integrity and resilience of natural systems / Alan Drengson and Duncan Taylor -- The fire of life: thinking about the biological basis for fire / Stephen J. Pyne -- A spiral dance: the necessity of fire to wildness / Mollie Matteson -- Fire and native peoples: a natural or humanized landscape? / Thomas R. Vale -- Coyote wildfire: evolving firefighters into fire guiders / Joe Fox -- Hot news: media coverage of wildfire / Conrad Smith -- Incendiary language: how language affects our perceptions / George Wuerthner -- Don't get hosed: how political framing influences fire policy / Les AuCoin -- Lifetimes with fire: a place in the wildland interface / Gary Snyder -- Fire-adapted landscapes ; The Yellowstone fires of 1988: A living wilderness / George Wuerthner
Fire ecology of the Sierra Nevada: forests born to burn / Jan W. van Wagtendonk -- Wildfire management on a human-dominated landscape: California Chaparral wildfires / Jon E. Keeley and CJ Fotheringham -- Fire in the Klamath-Siskiyou ecoregion: protecting and restoring the fire mosaic / Dominick A. DellaSala -- Fire in the Southwest: a historical context / Tom Ribe -- Fire in the East: welcoming back a native son / George Wuerthner -- Applied historical ecology: using the past to manage for the future / Thomas W. Swetnam, Craig D. Allen, and Julio L. Betancourt -- Fire and succession: a critical process for forest bird populations / Terrell D. Rich -- Fire and rebirth ; How to look and see ; Vested interests as purveyors of forest health ; Logging and wildfire: ecological differences and the need to preserve large fires / George Wuerthner -- After the smoke clears: ecological impacts of salvage logging / James R. Strittholt
Conventional salvage logging: the loss of ecological reason and economic restraint / Chris Maser -- Pyro cows: the role of livestock grazing in worsening fire severity / George Wuerthner -- The flawed economics of fire suppression / George Wuerthner -- Avoiding a new 'conspiracy of optimism': the economics of forest fuel reduction strategies / Thomas M. Power -- Money to burn: wildfire and the budget / Randal O'Toole -- The war on wildfire: firefighting and the militarization of forest fire management / Timothy Ingalsbee -- Learning to live with fire-dependent ecosystems / George Wuerthner -- Ecological restoration of Southwestern Ponderosa Pine ecosystems: a broad perspective / Craig D. Allen [and others] -- Keep the greenfire burning: deep ecology and prescribed fire / Timothy Ingalsbee -- Sprawling into disaster: the growing impact of rural residential development on wildland fire management in the greater Yellowstone area / Crystal Stanionis and Dennis Glick
Burning down the house: the role of disaster aid in subsidizing catastrophe / John Krist -- The community protection zone: defending homes and communities from the threat of forest fire / Brian Nowicki and Todd Schulke -- The ultimate firefight: changing hearts and minds / Andy Kerr -- Smokey the Bear Sutra -- Glossary of wildland fire terms -- Glossary of euphemisms

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Extent: xxix, 322 pages

Isbn: 9781597260695

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